Conditionally specified continuous distributions

Biometrika

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 735-746

  Wang, Yuchung J ^a   Ip, Edward H ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compatibility; Gibbs sampler; Global dependence function; Interaction; Local dependence function; Log linear decomposition; Mixed parameterization; Moebius inversion formula; Pseudolikelihood; Subset lattice

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949123520     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asn029     Document Type: Article

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